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Pathé versus Pathé, Exhibit A: Reading an Archival Document
- Film History: An International Journal
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 25, Number 1-2, 2013
- pp. 118-129
- Article
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Looking at an isolated and seemingly banal document in the Pathé archives, this article tries to show how such an archival source can be made significant through a series of contextualizations. The starting point here is the question of why this apparently meaningless fragment of a letter has ended up in the archive and what purpose it was meant to serve.